From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 25 6:28:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from c353425-b.htfds1.ct.home.com (c353425-b.htfds1.ct.home.com [24.2.169.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0A737B424 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 06:28:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from powerusersbbs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by c353425-b.htfds1.ct.home.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e8PDOab00430 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:24:36 -0400 Message-ID: <39CF5214.B9E50C8@powerusersbbs.com> Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 09:24:36 -0400 From: Ted Organization: The PowerUsersBBS X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en-US MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: arp References: <39CF4E80.855DE0D7@powerusersbbs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted wrote: > > Bob K wrote: > > > > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Ted Sikora wrote: > > > > > Bob K wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Ted Sikora wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Ok, here's a question: Is the MAC address of the ethernet card in your > > > > > > main server/gateway 00:10:b5:6c:33:83 ? (look at the output of ifconfig > > > > > > -a, or ipconfig /all if it's NT) If it is, then that would point to > > > > > > something very screwy happening with FreeBSD. If it isn't, then examine > > > > > > all the systems connected to the hub that's connected to dc0. Find the > > > > > > one with the MAC address of 00:10:b5:6c:33:83 and fix its IP > > > > > > configuration. > > > > > > > > > > > This is getting screwy. That address does not exist at all on any > > > > > machine. The other server same thing. I am using an ADSL Speed Stream > > > > > ethernet modem and a Lancity cable modem on each one. Could the address > > > > > be these devices? How can I extract the HW address from them? Funny it > > > > > was perfect before last week's > > > > > buildworld. I do one every month on all the machines. > > > > > > > > Who knows? Anyway, odds are that the ethernet ID's will be printed on the > > > > bottom, accompanied by a bar code. If not, well, you'd probably have to > > > > log into them to find out, or use SNMP (often the default read community > > > > is 'public'). > > > > > > > It must be the ADSL modems or 'Carnivore'. I ruled out the routers > > > and LanCity. > > > > Check if the MAC address matches any of the known public IPs of those > > devices. Look in the output of arp -a to get the list. > > > > -- > > Bob > > "I'm Canadian, and I can't photocopy my ass > > without the RCMP coming after me." > > - bigkahuna@scowling.net > > I did none of my devices have that address. The other server has another > mac address with the same error massage and another unkown > MAC address. Everythings running fine except for the messages. I have > remote logging and there seems to be no unkown logins etc. I'm stumped. > Could this be an IPv6 error? > That MAC address does not exist but I am going to physically check every device. Lately parts have had a habit of disappearing or changing brands. -- Ted Sikora Jtl Development Group tsikora@powerusersbbs.com Linux the choice of a GNU generation............ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message